Carolyn Parkhurst Quotes

It's true, isn't it, that each of us has two hearts? The secret heart, curled behind like a fist, living gnarled and shrunken beneath the plain, open one we use every day.

Carolyn Parkhurst

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• There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.

  

  Quico Canseco
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Liberty

• Michael Lewis has the amazing ability to take complex formulas and concepts and turn them into page-turners.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Amazing
  • Ability
  • Turn

• Our soldiers and people form one family. United, we may count on victory.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • People
  • Family
  • May

• My accent is... sort of an Edinburgh sort of soft southwest Scottish accent. It could almost be English.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • English
  • Almost
  • Accent

• The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Sky

• 'I used to tell everyone I meant to be an artist..... I don't do that any more.'

  

  Banksy

• Every fool knoweth that hatreds are the cinders of affection.

  

  Walter Raleigh
  • Fool

• They never lynch children, babies, no matter what they do they are whitewashed in advance.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Children

• The explorers of the past were great men and we should honour them. But let us not forget that their spirit lives on. It is still not hard to find a man who will adventure for the sake of a dream or one who will search, for the pleasure of searching, not for what he may find.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Great
  • Men
  • May

• Wisdom can be learned. But it cannot be taught.

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • Wisdom

• And what its worth, ask death-beds; they can tell.

  

  Edward Young
  • Death

• Just moments ago, I spoke with George W. Bush and congratulated him on becoming the 43rd president of the United States. And I promised him that I wouldn't call him back this time. I offered to meet with him as soon as possible so that we can start to heal the divisions of the campaign and the contest through which we've just passed.

  

  Al Gore
  • Time
  • Moments

• I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.

  

  Marcel Marceau
  • Trying

• I have the instruments, ideas, technology, computer techniques. We try to create or see something, which has not been known before - just to discover something together. This is always my dream.

  

  Lennart Nilsson
  • Together
  • Dream
  • Technology

• Moreover, the accomplishment of Russia's aims has been greatly simplified by the fact that we have heretofore offered the world no practical antidote for the Russian poison.

  

  James Forrestal
  • World
  • Accomplishment

• I was trained classically, and that's something that I want to do, but I do want to say that right now it's a good market for female comedians, and I want to explore that right now. I really do want to do dramas and meatier roles, especially film.

  

  Eliza Coupe
  • Good
  • Explore

• The readership of Victorian novels, when they were published, was much less diverse. People were probably white, and had enough money to be literate. Very often, there are phrases in Italian, German and French that are left untranslated.

  

  Eleanor Catton
  • People
  • Money
  • German

• What can we expect from this latest crop of indie directors who have been sucked into the franchise factory? I'm especially curious about 'Star Wars,' which will feature an all-indie crew after J. J. Abrams finishes with 'Episode VII.'

  

  Annalee Newitz
  • Star

• Being on set is really hard because there's craft service.

  

  Marissa Jaret Winokur
  • Service

• I started piano when I was four. My mom taught me. And then I went to Manhattan School of Music during high school, like every Saturday. And then I went to Berklee for college, in Boston.

  

  Charlie Puth
  • Music
  • School
  • High

• This is one of the great paradoxes of suffering. Those who don't suffer much think suffering should keep people from God, while many who suffer a great deal turn to God, not from him.

  

  Randy Alcorn
  • Great
  • Suffering
  • Paradoxes

• It is cold at six-forty in the morning on a March day in Paris, and seems even colder when a man is about to be executed by firing squad.

  

  Frederick Forsyth
  • Men
  • Morning
  • Cold

• It's true, isn't it, that each of us has two hearts? The secret heart, curled behind like a fist, living gnarled and shrunken beneath the plain, open one we use every day.

  

  Carolyn Parkhurst
  • Heart
  • Secret
  • Behinds